Armand Domalewski on X: "all Californians will pay more in premiums so LA can rebuild the exact same fire prone homes in the exact same fire prone area so we can do this all over again in five years because…why?" / X

all Californians will pay more in premiums so LA can rebuild the exact same fire prone homes in the exact same fire prone area so we can do this all over again in five years because…why?

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Emily Hoeven

@emily_hoeven

Feb 11

BREAKING: CA Insurance Dept approved the FAIR Plan’s request to collectively charge private insurance companies $1 billion in order to help pay claims. Half of the costs can be passed onto policyholders. The FAIR Plan would have run out of money by March. sfchronicle.com/california-wil

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Andrew Lang

@archibaldcrane

Feb 11

Not "the exact same fire prone homes" - the building code now is much more fire-hardened than the buildings that burned.

not so much for single family homes, no

People like the view and the weather. People are also stubborn, stupid and learning resistant.

It’s fine, but they should pay the market appropriate insurance premiums for that risk

Because we fucking live here you NorCal jackass

then you should pay market rate for your home insurance premiums, as i do. But also there are plenty of places within very close range of that area that do not go up in flames every five years

I moved to CA in 1985, bought a house 3 miles from the beach in Orange County. Low cost home insurance was widely available. I bought another house in 1994, insurance no problem. I bought another in 1996, again no problem. Then democrats took over. Stopped forest land fire

And think about all that money, USAID/FEMA gave away that could have been used for this.

Spent the money to properly clear the area surrounding your house of large flammables and installed a dousing system capable of keeping embers from igniting your house for the few minutes until a fire blows past? Too bad get fucked, you get to rebuild rich people's $20m houses

I'm for the government helping people be made whole after a natural disaster, but there has to be a stipulation that if you take the money, you are not allowed to rebuild

Unlikely that'll happen again in that same place in 5 years. What I wanna see is some reporting on whether other cities are preparing for the same thing. It's definitely gonna happen elsewhere.

Because it’s very lucrative for many people. Almost like planned obsolescence. That it is at total odds with ideas of sustainability and climate is apparently irrelevant. Words over deeds, I suppose.

Good thing they were able to pause the housing crises. Too busy permitting rebuilds so, in the meantime, they can’t possibly handle new housing elsewhere in the city. This is such an unserious place…

Coastal CA catches on fire pretty predictably every 3-4 years and every. single. time. people act like this is some random one-off. It's worse than DC when it snows.